CVE-2011-1173

Published: 22 June 2011

The econet_sendmsg function in net/econet/af_econet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x86_64 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking (AUN) packet.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Acorn Universal Networking driver did not correctly initialize memory. A remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Released (2.6.24-29.92)
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-32.62)
	maverick	Released (2.6.35-30.52)
	natty	Released (2.6.38-9.43)
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-316.30)
	maverick	Ignored (end of life)
	natty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Released (2.6.31-610.27)
	maverick	Does not exist
	natty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Released (2.6.35-30.54~lucid1)
	maverick	Does not exist
	natty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Not vulnerable (2.6.38-9.43~lucid1)
	maverick	Does not exist
	natty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-217.34)
	maverick	Released (2.6.32-417.34)
	natty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)
linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hardy	Does not exist
	lucid	Does not exist
	maverick	Released (2.6.35-903.23)
	natty	Released (2.6.38-1209.13)
	upstream	Released (2.6.39~rc1)

References

Bugs

https://launchpad.net/bugs/801484

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